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Project: Uccello
Client: Merivale Group
Location: Sydney
Opened: 2008
Brief: Italian restaurant that can accommodate a fast paced floor team for peak trading.
Highlights: This restaurant was designed by optimizing the floor space as best we could to fit as many seats possible. We knew this would be a venue that would get peaks both daytime and nighttime via corporate lunches and dinners. The floors are slate, the light shades resemble lobster pots, and the tea towel-sized napkins are a blessing. The striped white-and-yellow awning at one end, far from the open kitchen, matches the accents that brighten the room. The way the restaurant opens onto the Ivy Pool Club is what really sets it apart, though. Factoid: the cubicles of the pool club changing room, which also serves as Uccello's restrooms, are decorated with pairs of the traditional male/female toilet door symbols engaging in what could be mistaken for acts of vigorous gymnastics. Sometimes they're trios. That was me. My bad.